According to Baker, material things are constituted by aggregates of fundamental particles.
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For Baker common sense materialism suggests that things are 'ultimately constituted by aggregates of fundamental particles' (Baker 2001, p. 159). According to him this definition equally applies to rocks, tables, statues and humans. Baker further clarifies that even though things are constituted by fundamental particles, things are not identical with or reducible to the particles that constitute them. ‘But, as I formulate the idea of constitution, constitution is not identity’ (Baker 2001, p. 159). He believes that there is a temporal or time difference that distinguishes the identities. For example, a statue and the block of marble from which the statue is created differ in identity because of temporal difference even though fundamentally they are made of same particles.
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